People often like to postulate on the list that eventually there won't be any more of these philantropic free remailers, and people will be charging small amounts for every remailed message, to make some money off it. I've thought of a pretty good reason why this might not ever happen. Hal Finney (or maybe it was Jim Dixon. Probably both) recently realizd and revealed to us that if one operates a remailer oneself, you effectively hide your identity from even the _first_ remailer on your chain, because it doesn't know if the mesage is in fact from _you_, or from someone using your remailer. In practice, simply having some remailer software running that no one other then you uses wont' work. You've got to have a busy remailer running with lots of traffic coming in as well as going out. This means that if someone wants to send secure anonymous mail using remailers, it's in his best interest to operate a remailer himself, and to try and get as many people to use it as possible. So philanthropy or profit aren' the only reasons to run a remailer; one's primary reason might be to ensure oneself anonymity. You could try to get some profit out of it too, but the more people who use your remailer, the better for you, so it's in your interest to make it free so many people will use it. This motivation could provide us with lots of free remailers for years to come. Maybe. It's an interesting thing to think about, anyhow.